Tunis-based netizens Slim Amamou and Azyz Amamy arrested

Published on Thursday 6 January 2011. .

The Tunis-based netizens Slim Amamou and Azyz Amamy were arrested. Amamou was previously detained briefly on 21 May 2010 ahead of a demonstration against web censorship that he had he planned to hold outside the information ministry. Amamy had covered the clashes in December in Sidi Bouzid. His blog (http://azyz404.blogspot.com/) could not be accessed and his Facebook page had been deactivated. There were released on 13 January.